Judge denies AG's demand for summary judgment in Google fraud case

An Arizona judge rejected a request from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for a partial judgment in an ongoing consumer fraud lawsuit against Google, ruling that the state did not have sufficient evidence.

Instead, the case should move forward with jurors, the judge wrote.

Last May, Brnovich filed a heavily redacted lawsuit alleging that Google’s data-collection processes had violated the state’s Consumer Fraud Act. What has followed has been a legal battle over the release of records related to the case.

The Attorney General’s Office began investigating Google after an Associated Press article in 2018, and Brnovich has been part of a 48 state antitrust investigation into Google since 2019. Brnovich was also critical of Google at the recent annual meeting of the Arizona Republican Party.

“There are a myriad of factual issues that must be resolved at trial,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason said in his ruling.

Read more: https://www.azmirror.com/2021/01/26/judge-denies-ags-demand-for-summary-judgment-in-google-fraud-case/